Wilbur Ross famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Cottages #Serious #Helping
Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Community #Demand #Quota
What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. Itâ€™s not much of a basis for an economy.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Thinking #People #Waiting
If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Class #America #Want
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Ships #Strange #Kind
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Spending #Reckoning #Borrowing
Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Beach #Team #Weekend
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
-- Wilbur Ross

#World #Regulation #Banking
Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Jobs #Hundred #Gas
There is a future for the auto parts industry, but it needs a consolidation and a rationalization of geography in that most suppliers have facilities in the U.S., although most of their customers are overseas.
-- Wilbur Ross

#Needs #Geography #Consolidation

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